Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] a [noun] in " in BNC.

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1 The group has since announced a reduction in staff of one-fifth and it has moved over completely to computer setting and direct input by journalists .
2 He had a large kidneyectomy for a slow-growing tumour in March last year and has since developed a secondary in his right lung .
3 Dr Alan Solomon graduated in Mathematics from Cambridge University , and has since pursued a career in Defence , Textiles , Oil and the Stock Exchange .
4 The outcome was that at the end of June 1960 a Cuban delegation in Moscow was warmly received by Khrushchev himself , and was told by the Soviet premier that ’ the Soviet Union has only to press a button in any part of the Soviet Union for rockets from that country to fall on any other part of the planet ’ .
5 If the taxpayer makes a potentially exempt transfer he pays no IHT when the gift is made and will pay no IHT at all with respect to the gifted property if he survives the gift by seven years ( and has not reserved a benefit in the gifted property ) ( IHTA 1984 , s3A(4) ) .
6 The accused has not appropriated a thing in action , because the bank did not owe the money to anyone .
7 Absence of such deposits in the late 1980s has not seen a decline in Eurocurrency .
8 Oldham 's other keeper , 19-year-old Paul Gerrard , has not played a game in nine months after two knee operations and made his comeback in the reserves last night .
9 Worse still , this sluggish growth has not prevented a rise in inflation .
10 Though he has not released a record in five years , his success in the 1980s was astronomical : his three solo albums sold more than 75m copies altogether , his two home-videos 1m each .
11 Despite his personal success the team has not score a point in the last five matches , and are next to bottom .
12 She has just completed a year in the Gwelo Teacher 's Training College .
13 We speak here of a man who has just completed a season in which he won four USPGA Tour events and more than $1,000,000 to finish second on the money list behind Greg Norman .
14 Rosemary Reynolds ( Mrs Wolfson ) , a social worker , writes : ‘ My career has evolved through work with children and families , adoption and fostering , to my current work as a Guardian ad litem ’ , and she has just obtained a Diploma in Child Protection from London University .
15 Some ads will be irrelevant : the viewer or reader is not in the target group , or has just made a purchase in that product group and does not want another just yet .
16 He has just seen a prospectus in which the Government is offering for sale , shares in British Rail .
17 By 1030 hours the Wall patrol has completed its escort task and is free to assist an Engineer Corporal who has just had a collision in his car with an East German in the Soviet Sector .
18 That man with a beard has just had a breakdown in London 's Burning .
19 The president , the country 's ruler for 20 years and now in his fifth term of office , has already secured a place in Indonesian history as the father of the nation 's development .
20 There is a snowstorm expected , but she has already survived a hurricane in that tent .
21 All this might sound far-fetched ; but one firm , Sanyo , has already made a step in the direction of home automation .
22 It has already sold a business in Belgium and closed one in France because they lacked ‘ critical mass ’ .
23 Hedd Wyn , made by Pendefig , has already had a screening in Welsh on S4C to celebrate the channel 's tenth anniversary last November .
24 Such an approach will be familiar to anyone who has ever done a course in macroeconomics .
25 To start looking at press links very quickly , because ah I prospective candidate has always got a lead in , and so many issues have a European dimension .
26 Advertising has always had a place in the newspaper ; some of the earliest newspapers were essentially means for communicating notices of events , such as the arrival of ships .
27 She has clearly set a lead in a number of areas , pushing radical ideas and reforms ( see Chapter 9 ) .
28 Piquantly , for the caring generation , the desire for natural quality materials has also caused a boom in the leather trade : it is an extremely committed and unusual member of the new elite who can resist the high style leather goods that now abound .
29 The shepherding within the house church movement has also met a need in people seeking direction , howbeit often given in an over-paternalized way .
30 Lang has also played a part in the admission of rock and graffiti to the cultural fold and given a helping hand to the young unemployed with subsidies for their participation on archaeological digs .
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